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Re: My Shelby story

Discussion in 'Shelby Mustang List' started by ecj, Feb 21, 2005.

  1. ecj

    ecj Guest

    Dan,

    I went to the car memories website and read the story on how you aquired your '68 GT350. It was a very good story. Thanks for sharing it.

    Jim Seisser

    -----Original Message-----
    From: "Dennis@carmemories.com" <dennis@carmemories.com>
    Sent: Feb 21, 2005 12:36 AM
    To: Shelby Mustang <ShelbyMustang@carmemories.com>
    Subject: My Shelby story

    Thought I would share my Shelby Story. The first time I really noticed
    the Shelby Mustangs was when I turned 16. I saw an ad in a magazine. I
    think it was a car mag but it might have been Playboy. It was a '68
    Shelby Cobra. You know the red ones. I had no money to buy one but I had
    pictures from the ads and stories. A year later I talked my parents into
    helping me get a car to drive to high school. We had moved to another
    town and I wanted to graduate from my old school ten miles away.. I
    found a '66 coupe. It was a stock 289 2 barrel 3 speed car. It was on
    that Mustang I got my motorhead degree. With the help of some friends I
    built it into a street racer. Fast forward about ten years. I still
    owned the coupe and decided it was time to do some restoration on it. I
    had always wanted a fastback Mustang so a buddy and I spent the summer
    of '82 looking for a respectable Fastback. I was going to drive the
    fastback while the coupe was under work. What we found was a '68 GT350
    one owner that was hurting but definitely restorable in NW Ohio
    (Defiance). The owner had already sold it but a pocket full of $100
    bills, an additional $500 offer and his wife allowed me to take it home.
    That was in '82. I still own it. A red '68 GT350. The full story of how
    I acquired the car is at CarMemories.com,
    http://www.carmemories.com/cgi-bin/viewexperience.cgi?experience_id=10
    My Shelby Mustang and I have been a lot of places and done a lot of things.

    Dennis
    CarMemories.com
    Administrator


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